The Acropolis’s first structures were built for defensive purposes. From its central position above Athens, the Acropolis ...

Rising to a height of between 60 and 70 meters above the city, the rocky flat-topped hill of the Acropolis ... Athens and its empire. Most of the buildings remaining on the Acropolis today were ...

The mayor believes that by the time the work is finished, the birthplace of democracy will have shed 3 degrees off of annual ...

Holly D. Johnson As its name suggests, the Acropolis Museum – which resides in central Athens' Makrigianni district just below the ancient site itself – houses various archaeological findings ...

The Centre has continued in the past months to receive complaints regarding the proposal for a 32m-high building in the vicinity of the Acropolis. The 26th session of the Committee requested the State ...

Built over four-and-a-half thousand ... align almost perfectly on a north-south axis. The Acropolis is a sacred hill in the heart of Athens with the Parthenon at its peak. Beside it is a smaller ...

The Ministry of Culture together with the Ministry of Environment and Development have launched a general conservation and revitalisation programme for the main archaeological sites in Athens, ...